Assignments

Critical Theory Presentation (20%) -- You will be a required to sign up for an oral presentation during the semester. For your presentation, you will read the texts assigned for a particular week, summarize and articulate main points from the week's scholarly and literary texts, generate a critical question or two connecting the theory to the text, and contribute to in-class and online discussion for the week.

Critical Response Papers (30%) -- You will complete a number short, critical, analytical response papers. These single-spaced, one-page writings serve as close readings of, analyses of, and articulations of the texts and connections you see, read, and talk about in the tutorial. You will be required to generate a response paper approximately every other week for a total of 7.

Academic Statements (20%) -- As part of our exploration and discussion of English as a discipline, practice, and profession, you will complete two academic statements: a philosophy of teaching and a statement of diversity. Like the response papers, these statements will be graded on clarity, concision, detail, and your ability to communicate your ideas, experiences, and perspectives.

Final Paper/Project (20%) -- You will complete a Final Paper/Project that integrates what you have read, explored, and written about, that draws on specific terms, concepts, or issues from our discussions, and that engages the theoretical perspectives and practices of the course. The project asks you to make connections and to create an argument across different kinds of evidence and added research. Your project can be a traditional research paper, a media production (which includes a substantive analytical component), or a hybrid of the two. Ideally, you will develop a project with the goal of publication (for a short-form journal or website), presentation at a conference (including abstract for submission), or production (such as a multimodal text).

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

What is Close Reading?

How to Write a Summary

Claims, Claims, Claims

Introductions & Conclusions

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

Revision Check-List

Readings

The course texts are available through any reputable bookseller or the publisher's website directly (which often offer discount codes). Shorter readings are available via the course Blackboard. The required texts for this class are:

Required Ahmed, Sara. On Being Included. Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio Belsey, Catherine. Critical Practice. Butler, Octavia. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. Chen, Mel. Animacies. Ferguson, Roderick A. Aberrations in Black. Justice, Daniel Heath. Why Indigenous Literature Matters. Lai, Larissa. The Tiger Flu. Morrison, Toni. Sula. Schalk, Sami. Bodyminds. Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. Recommended Anzaldua, Gloria & Cherrie Moraga. This Bridge Called My Back. Chang, Alenda Y. Playing Nature. Fickle, Tara. The Race Card.

Consult the course syllabus for the week's required reading. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin. "Disability." Keywords for Disability Studies. NYU Press. 29 May 2018. https://keywords.nyupress.org/disability-studies/essay/disability/. Aultman, B. "Cisgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 61-62. Burgett, Bruce. "Sex." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 217-221. Ferguson, Robert A. "Race." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 191-196. Georgiou, Myria. "Identity." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 94-98. Gray, Herman. "Race." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 61-164. Greene, Stuart and April Lidinsky, Eds. From Inquiry to Academic Writing (5th Edition). Macmillan, 2020. Halberstam, Judith. "Gender." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 116-120. Somerville, Siobhan B. "Queer." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 187-191. Williams, Cristan. "Transgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 232-234. Print.

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